Jefferson championed decimal based system of weights and measures, and was hoping to convert the US to just such a system.

杰斐逊支持基于十进制的度量衡系统，并希望将美国转变为这样的系统。

Qinshihuang said about unifying his domain by reorganizing his government into commanderies, directly responsible to his central government, standardizing the written language and the system of weights and measures including even the width of carriage tracts.

秦始皇为了统一自己的国家而将自己的政府改组为由中央统一管辖的郡县，并规范了文字和度量衡系统，甚至包括马车的宽度（书同文、车同轨）。